The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
Hot Topics AA: Iranian Crackdown Goes Global 12/03/09 AA: Report: 2600 bodies found in Kashmir graves 12/02/09 AF: Afghan Expert Says Obama Plan For Security Transfer May Work 12/02/09 AF: Body of second missing soldier found in Afghanistan 11/30/09 IQ: Iraq’s civilian death toll in November is lowest since war began 12/01/09 IR: Iran’s fist …
Chuck Spinney Sends…. Last night President Obama crossed the Rubicon and made the Afghan War his war. Will this decision come back to haunt him? Juan Cole argues that this is likely to be the case, because Obama’s escalation decision is based on a flawed analogy. Reasoning by analogy is powerful albeit particularly dangerous form of …
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Brazil Wins WTO Approval to Sanction U.S. Over Cotton (Update2) Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) — Brazil won the World Trade Organization’s approval to start retaliating against the U.S. because of subsidies paid to American cotton farmers. The WTO gave Brazil permission in August to impose $294.7 million in sanctions against U.S. goods — the second-highest amount …
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Tom Friedman had an especially fatuous column in Sunday’s New York Times, which is saying something given his well-established capacity for smug self-assurance. According to Friedman, the big challenge we face in the Arab and Islamic world is “the Narrative” — his patronizing term for Muslim views about America’s supposedly negative role in the region. …
Chuck Spinney Sends: Viewed at the level of epistemology, the distinction be the search for truth in science and religion is stark: In science the structure of the world view — i.e., the brain’s interior model of reality — is evolved to match observations taken from the external world, whereas in religion, observations are evolved …
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Secession is Constitutional, Abraham Lincoln’s unconstitutional pillaging and looting of the South not-with-standing. Few are sufficiently educated to actually know that Lincoln did not free the slaves of the north and west and did not have the Constitutional authority to suspend habeas corpus, conscript men of the north, borrow money to wage war on peacefully …
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There is only one “think tank” we pay constant attention to, only one that consistently produces worthwhile relevant information tailored to the needs of those of us concerned about national security writ whole. Here ar just a few of their recent publications, click on the logo to browse their formidable collection of contributing authors and …
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